The Web Wars are in full effect!! Netscape and Microsoft have been feuding over the fastest, slickest, and easiest interface to communicate with over the Internet. Bill has resorted to his old tactics of giving it all away, but Netscape still holds a pretty strong grip on the market and the decisions that other companies are making. Many of which seem to favor them.

We have continued to focus in one arena, Netscape, but on a continuing basis look at the all of the competition and find the pros and cons of each. Microsoft has a pretty strong contender, but I have a feeling the Netscape will come back with rock-hard uppercut to answer Bill's latest attack. Being a Registered Netscape Developer, I know first hand that the folks at Mountain View are crunching away at all the bugs and making life as smooth as possible. And one of the most beneficial aspects is that they continue to support and enhance all platform specific releases. One thing that Microsoft is trying to work on. With Microsoft's latest release we see MANY features which are specific to Windows 95 and that may be supported with Windows NT 4.0, but they lack in support for the major players like: Macintosh, Sun, Unix, etc. It wasn't till recently that Microsoft released their Macintosh version of Internet Explore 2.0, while Netscape is already supplying the Macintosh 3.0 beta to their clients.

Our key focus is to understand what technologies are out there and then determine how they can benefit our clients. And the way it currently stands, Netscape is making more strides to standardize their products with some of the big players, as well as current and future Internet standards. In my honest opinion, Microsoft has just been playing catch-up and just accelerating Netscape's lead and frontier. With the quick turnaround in development cycles we should see some pretty interesting events to come. Stay tune, the War isn't over!! Mel Reyes

War of The Web